It doesn’t look like much from the outside but when you walk into the Swanton Berry Farm store it’s a wonderful shock to the system. It’s like a perfectly dreamy flashback full of berries, treats and wish-you-had-it memorabilia. All senses are on from the get-go. The welcome sign invoking the honor system, the pie [...]
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April 22, 2013 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: DISCOVER, Organic, Profiles
Social Tagging: Farm Store • Growing Food on the Honor System • Organic Strawberries • Swanton Berry Farm
Filed under: DISCOVER, Organic, Profiles
Social Tagging: Farm Store • Growing Food on the Honor System • Organic Strawberries • Swanton Berry Farm
March 27, 2013 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: BEE, Botanical Moment, DO, Grow, Inspired
Social Tagging: Grow Plants From Seed • Seed Geek • Seeds I love to look at...
Filed under: BEE, Botanical Moment, DO, Grow, Inspired
Social Tagging: Grow Plants From Seed • Seed Geek • Seeds I love to look at...
My early spring to-plant list always includes pumpkins. A garden without pumpkins must be like committing spring planting heresy. It’s just not right. And of course they have to be accompanied by loads of other squashes. Lupines are a hardy bunch from seed to flower. Like an independent teenager, they tend to strike out on their [...]
March 15, 2013 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Compost, Educate, Garden Love, Tips
Social Tagging: Edible Weeds • Is there such thing as a good weed? • Weeds as compost • Weeds as Mulch • What is a weed?
Filed under: Compost, Educate, Garden Love, Tips
Social Tagging: Edible Weeds • Is there such thing as a good weed? • Weeds as compost • Weeds as Mulch • What is a weed?
The thought of weeding conjures up all sorts of reactions from people. There are weeding haters, weeding lovers and an entire range of folks somewhere in between – in the toleration zone. And the basic fact, no matter how you feel about it, if you keep a garden there is weeding to be done. 5 [...]
March 1, 2013 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: DESIGN, DISCOVER, DO, Gardens, Grow, Materials
Social Tagging: grow a garden • Urban Gardening Ideas
Filed under: DESIGN, DISCOVER, DO, Gardens, Grow, Materials
Social Tagging: grow a garden • Urban Gardening Ideas
How much space do you need to garden? What counts? It’s one of the latest questions buzzing around the garden world since NPR covered a study on urban gardening in Chicago. Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign used Google Earth to find over 65 acres dedicated to food production — or at least what [...]
February 21, 2013 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: DO, Grow
Social Tagging: Grow Your Own Carrots • Winter Gardening
Filed under: DO, Grow
Social Tagging: Grow Your Own Carrots • Winter Gardening
Sweet, snappy, wake-your-taste-buds-up delicious, these carrots are unreal. A bit of sugary earth wrapped up in one perfect package. Like the tomatoes of winter only, with carrots, it’s a cold spell that defines flavor. However it could also be the challenge of growing them that makes them, each respectively, a hot commodity. *Growing Carrots: It’s always a [...]
February 12, 2013 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: DO, Garden Love, Grow, Organic, Tips
Social Tagging: Get it Right • Monsanto • Organic Garden • Roundup
Filed under: DO, Garden Love, Grow, Organic, Tips
Social Tagging: Get it Right • Monsanto • Organic Garden • Roundup
This was insane. Giant, keg sized bottles of Roundup in my local store. Double the trouble for one low price! At least on the front end. But on the back end – as far as I’m concerned – is pandora’s box of chemical warfare disguised as a helpful, make-your-life-simple remedy for battling anything unwanted. My [...]
February 2, 2013 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: BEE, Botanical Moment, DISCOVER, DO, Grow
Social Tagging: Obsessed with Kale? Winter Garden Crops • school garden
Filed under: BEE, Botanical Moment, DISCOVER, DO, Grow
Social Tagging: Obsessed with Kale? Winter Garden Crops • school garden
A closer look at the school garden I manage reveals a few faithful winter classics. The same standards of my obsessive winter diet. Broccoli, kale, kale, flowers to adorn my salad, more kale and broccoli. The few varieties missing here would be carrots, leafy greens of all kinds and, of course, more carrots. (However, I’m [...]
January 23, 2013 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: DO, Grow
Social Tagging: flowers to grow • wildlife gardening
Filed under: DO, Grow
Social Tagging: flowers to grow • wildlife gardening
These cosmos starts were ready for “lunch” at least 2 weeks ago. At least in my mind they were. But I didn’t get around to transplanting them back then and they have continued to grow contentedly. Honestly, cosmos are like the wrinkle free shirt of the garden. Carefree and no fuss. You can start them [...]
November 18, 2012 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Educate, Grow, Techniques, Tips
Social Tagging: Annual Crops • Beans • Harvesting Seed
Filed under: Educate, Grow, Techniques, Tips
Social Tagging: Annual Crops • Beans • Harvesting Seed
These are the last of my beans for the season. I left them on the vine to fully mature and ready for next season’s planting, pulling them before our first full set of rains and well after my last beans were picked for eating. Yum. The pole beans were definitely the best eating beans, no matter how [...]
August 30, 2012 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Broad Spectrum, DISCOVER, DO, Grow
Social Tagging: Food Surplus or Bust • Niagara Fruit Region • Ridgeway Ontario
Filed under: Broad Spectrum, DISCOVER, DO, Grow
Social Tagging: Food Surplus or Bust • Niagara Fruit Region • Ridgeway Ontario
Farmstands in Southern Ontario range from eye catching abundance to others that are simply sunflower bunches waiting at the end of a driveway, a sign reading $5.00 resting against the buckets. Fruits, veggies and flowers are grown on full scale farms or kitchen garden plots. The excess finds its way to the roadside. While charm ratings [...]